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Napolitano: The ‘Overpromised And Underdelivered’ Republican Memo Does Not ‘Vindicate’ Trump

Fox News columnist Andrew Napolitano told the news agency on Monday that the controversial Nunes memo released Friday, alleging the Justice Department abused its surveillance powers by wrongfully obtaining a FISA warrant against a former Trump campaign adviser, did not vindicate President Donald Trump.

This memo totally vindicates “Trump” in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace!

Napolitano said he agreed with Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, who said that the information provided by the memo does not undermine Mueller’s Russian interference investigation. The former judge also rejected Trump’s claim, saying he shouldn’t have a “false sense of confidence” about Mueller’s probe.

“The president has claimed total vindication. That’s the president being the president. … I understand why he says things like that, it gins up his base and it may help him politically, but legally it’s of no moment,” he said on “America’s Newsroom.”

Napolitano said Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee “overpromised and underdelivered” with the memo release and that he was looking forward to seeing the Democrats’ memo, calling for it to be published.

“I think the Republicans overpromised and underdelivered with their memo. We’ll see if the Democrats do the same thing,” he said. “I want it to come out. I want to see who on [the intelligence] committee is spinning.”

He argued that the American people have the right to know the truth and that the authorities should provide the “raw data” for them, with classified material redacted, in order to see the behind the Republicans’ and Democrats’ claims.

He also stressed on the fact that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, the author of the Republican memo, had acknowledged in an interview with Bret Baier that he never saw the FISA applications which he summarized in the memo.

During a press conference last year, Trump had called Napolitano a “very talented legal mind”.

Democrats drafted their own document in response to the Republican Nunes memo. On Monday, the House Intelligence Committee voted to release the Democratic memo.

The release off the counter memo depends on Trump now, as he has five days to decide whether to declassify it or not. Many politicians have urged Trump to release the Democratic memo.